Job 33:24

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Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

“He opens their ear to instruction,
And commands that they return from evil.

In You our fathers trusted;
They trusted and You delivered them.

“What profit is there in my blood, if I go down to the pit?
Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your faithfulness?

He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay,
And He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm.

Be to me a rock of habitation to which I may continually come;

You have given commandment to save me,
For You are my rock and my fortress.

For Your lovingkindness toward me is great,
And You have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.

“Lo, for my own welfare I had great bitterness;
It is You who has

kept my soul from the pit of nothingness,

For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

“Is Ephraim My dear son?
Is he a delightful child?
Indeed, as often as I have spoken against him,
I certainly still remember him;
Therefore My

heart yearns for him;

I will surely have mercy on him,” declares the Lord.

As for you also, because of the blood of My covenant with you,
I have set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.

Then let him be gracious to him, and say,
‘Deliver him from going down to the pit,
I have found a ransom’;

No man can by any means redeem his brother
Or give to God a ransom for him—

just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”

being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;

who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at

the proper time.

knowing that you were not

redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers,